Mystery
THE WRONG MAN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [11-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-252 [253-254: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. The UK edition was published in 1946 by Macdonald. Hubin (1994), p. 42. Item #12780
A KEY TO FREDRIC BROWN'S WONDERLAND: A STUDY AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 85 copies done in hardcover. Bibliographical data plus reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler (who was the author's literary agent). Item #9136
DEATH STOPS THE BELLS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #8193
MY FIRST MURDER.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #5356
CHIEF TALLON AND THE S.O.R.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #5358
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.
New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row Publishers, [1965]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Introduces the character of Virgil Tibbs, and the basis for the feature film. This copy's text has been marked up to block out set ups for the script of the film. Edgar Award winner for best first novel. Hubin, p. 44. Item #23584
DEALING OUT DEATH.
Philadelphia, David McKay, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Bill Lennox hard boiled novel, set in Las Vegas. Ballard was a Black Mask writer. Hubin, p. 652. Item #22443
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Item #22235
FLYING DEATH ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-198, title page printed in orange and black, original yellow cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45. Item #20411
FLYING DEATH.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery and adventure novel with fantastical elements. Item #7665
SHYLOCK HOMES: HIS POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.
[Arlington, VA]: The Dispatch-Box Press, 1973. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Edited and introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. Collection of 10 Sherlock Holmes parodies which were serialized in American newspapers in 1903. This collection is taken from the pages of the The New York Herald. Item #13857
THE DEADLY PERCHERON.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47. Item #10975
THE DEADLY PERCHERON.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47. Item #23530
THE LAST OF PHILIP BANTER.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's second mystery novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams..." - Pederson (ed.): The St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.), pp. 47. Item #9029
THE C. I. D. OF DEXTER DRAKE.
New York: J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., Publishers, [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-302 [303-304: blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. Consulting detective Dexter Drake with his sidekick Paul Howard, who narrates the stories, solves crimes. In the guise of a novel this is a collection of stories. The second of three books to feature Drake. Hubin, p. 49. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 10. Item #22365
BLOOD BROTHERHOOD.
New York: Walker and Company, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Signed by Barnard on the title page. Mystery novel set in Yorkshire. Uncommon signed. Item #15059
BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD.
New York: Avon, 1982. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. A Michael Sprague mystery. Item #6981
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Carlotta Carlyle mystery. Item #6882
ALL MY ENEMIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Spy novel of Soviet espionage in the United States. A Ballantine hardcover, H-3. Photo montage dust jacket. Item #8074
BITTERSWEET.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. The lives of two women and love in the 19th Century American west. Item #14799
ILL WIND.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Anna Pigeon mystery. Item #5806
ILL WIND.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Anna Pigeon mystery. Item #14801
TRACK OF THE CAT.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first mystery. Item #5805
TRACK OF THE CAT.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first mystery. Item #14800
THE FACE AND THE MASK.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, silver top edge, other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A scarce collection of short fiction including "The Doom of London," a catastrophe story, and "The Great Pegram Mystery, a Sherlock Holmes parody. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-8 and (1981) 1-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 126 and 127. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 046. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 55. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 51. Item #13781